Egg case



Jan. 9, 1923., 7 1,441,722. A. V. DELL.

EGG CASE.

FILED JULY 10. 1920. 2 SHETS-SHEET 1.

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EGG CASE.

FILED JULY 10. 1920. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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EGG CASE.

Application filed July 10, 1920. Serial No. 395,271.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR V. DELL, of R. R. No. 3, Dunboyne in the county of Elgin, Province of Ontario. Canada a subject of the Kingof Great- Britain, have in vented certain new and useful l'inproveinents in Cases, of which the following is a specification.

Ti '5; invention relates particularly to egg cases used in shipping eggs from the produclng centers to dealers or dealers to retailers, and my object is to devise a case which will more effectively protect the eggs than the cases now in use, so that the percentage of loss in transit is very greatly reduced and in which the capacity for any given dimensions 'is not materially reduced so that for equal capacity the improved case will be of but slightly greater length than the common thirty-dozen case.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. 1 is a plan viewlpartly broken away, of part of an egg case constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 a vertical section of part of the same, partly broken away, showing the cover in place;

3 a perspective detail of one of the fillers; and

Figs. 4 and 5 side elevations of the strips forming the filler sections.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 is a rectangular Wooden box of ordinary construction provided with a lid 2, which is held in position when the case is closed by the hasps 3 of ordinary type.

As is usual in egg boxes, a plurality of superimposed fillers are employed and interposed fiats 4 which, with the fillers, form rectangular cells to hold the eggs.

The fillers are each formed of a plurality of cardboard strips 5 and 6 (see particularly Figures 3, 4 and 5), the strips 5 being formed with notches 7 and the strips 6 with notches 8 which interlock as shown in Fig. 3. The strips 5 are also provided with a series of holes 9 which engagethe shoulders 10 formed on the sides of the notches 7 to hold the strips from accidental disengagement.

The fillers areSo arranged that the cells in one are displaced in one direction so that the cells therein lie in staggered relationship to the cells in adjacent fillers, the cells a of one filler having one set of strips of the underlying filler crossing said cells centrally and diametrically. As these strips would tend to give the flat overlying them almost too rigid a support, each strip which so crosses beneath the cells of a filler above it is out out so that the fiat can spring down slightly under the weight of the eggs contained therein, thus giving such eggs an elastic support. This arrangement makes the possibilities of breakage very much less than in the ordinary case in which eggs are supported in substantially axial alinement 1 lvith one another and separated only by the ats. e

To secure this offsetting of alternate fillers and to give the fillers an elastic engagement with the sides of the box, I extend the ends of all the cardboard strips beyond'the outer strap at each side. The ends 11 are comparatively short, but at one side the ends 12 are considerably longer being of such length when the fillers are placed in position alternately in reversed positions the offsetting of the cells relative to one another is effected as shown particularly in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. As these long ends 12 are easily bent, I interlock with them a bracing strip 13, the locking being effected preferably in the same manner as the interlocking between the strips 5 and 6.

A further protection against longitudinal or transverse shifting of the fillers is given by forming the outside cardboard strips of three sides and the bracing strip 13 on the fourth side with flanges 14 bent at right angles thereto, the width of said flanges being sufficient to bring their outer edges approximately into alinement with the outer edges of the strip ends which they cross.

As the successful operation of the case depends on the proper positioning of each filler, it is important, after a filler has been placed in position and filled with eggs and a flat inserted over it, to be able to determine at a glance at which side of the casethe long ends 11 with their bracing strip are located in order that the next filler may be set in position with its corresponding ends diametrically opposite to the ends of the underlying filler; I therefore form in one corner of each flat an opening 15 through which the position of the underlying filler may be observed.

Thewaste of space due to the long ends ll necessitates a slightincrease in thevsize of the case above those commonly employed, but this is not found objectionable, tho-ugh in cases Where it is not desirable to increase the exterior dimensions :oi'jthe case, full advantage of my invention may be obtained by reducing the capacity oihthe case one row of cells inieach flat in that case being dispensed hat I claim as my invention is 1-.-

Il. An egg case comprising a rectangular box; a cardboard filler comprising two series of interlocked cardboard strips forming; rectangular cells, the ends of the strips ateach side projecting beyond the outer strip at being of greater length than the ends projectinp' atad'acent sides a bracing strip of 4/ Q i 7 k.

cardboard. interlocked With the longer projecting ends; an integral outwardly turned flange along one edge of said bracing strip said flange being adapted to position the filflerrelative to the casing, and aiiller oilset halt a cell width in one direction relative to the cells of the other filler.

' 2. An case comprising a rectangular box; a cardboard filler comprising: two series of interlocked cardboard strips forming; rectangular cells, the ends of t is strips at each side projecting beyond the outer strip at that side. the projecting ends of one side being of greater length tien the ends projecting at adjacent sides; a bracing; strip of card interlocked with the longer projecting ends a filler offset half a cell Width in one direction relativeto the cells of the other filler; and an integral outwardly turned tangular cells, the ends of the strips at each side projecting beyond the outer strip at that side, the pro ecting; ends of one side being oi' greater length than the ends projecting at adjacent sides; a bracing strip of cardboard interlocked with the'long'er projecting ends; and a filler ofi'set half a cell Width in one direction relative to the cells of the other filler the cell Walls of each filler which are in offset relationship to one another each having a short depression formed in its edge in alinement with the centers of the cells of the adjacent filler.

4. A filler formed of two sets of spaced cardboard Si/I'IPS, each strip of one set liavmg a series oi: equally spaced notches formed [in one edge and a series of triangular open:

ARTHUR v. DELL, 

